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Mahalakshmi, known to Europeans as St. Valentine's Peak, a conical funnel-shaped hill, 1540 feet high, stands abreast of Dahanu in Vivalvedhe village, about twelve miles from the coast and sixteen or seventeen north-east of Tarapur.1
The temple, a good stone and mortar building, stands at the foot of the hill which is extremely difficult to climb. So steep is it that no one can climb it but the ministrant, or pujari, the Varli headman of the village to whom the goddess gives nerve and skill. On the full moon night the ministrant climbs to the top and plants a flag, the people watching below and raising a shout when they catch sight of the flag. To any one but a member of the Patel's family the ascent is said to be fatal. [Trans. Bom. Geog. Soc. VII. 97.] In 1872 Marya Patil, who for years had been in the habit of planting the flag, started to climb the hill, but was never again heard of. For three years the flag remained unplanted. Then the goddess is said to have appeared by night to Krishna the nephew of Marya, and told him to plant her flag on the peak. He obeyed her, but has since been as one possessed.2
1: Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency (Facsimile Reproduction) Thana Places of Interest. Originally printed in 1882. Volume XIV, pp. 218.
2: Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency (Facsimile Reproduction) Thana Places of Interest. Originally printed in 1882. Volume XIV, pp. 219.
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